For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife.

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji discusses his International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Competition entry, the importance of sound Pier Paolo Pasolini adaptation he is hoping to make.

The Republic of Congo’s minister of mines has issued ... This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin ...

A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers what is now the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin and Sahara desert. “When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the ...

This destruction threatens not just local biodiversity, but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon sink. Despite claims of respecting ...

Congo is a land of tropical rainforests with large amounts of valuable mineral sources including massive reserves of freshwater. Yet despite the country’s vast natural wealth, the majority of ...